Tried every possible combination of displaying the variable in the jsp.
But I was not getting any value corresponding to the variable when used along with the EL $, I used to get below response through JSP page when run under tomcat 5.5.x:

So, after googling out, I found that, its the Servlet and JSP versions not compatible with the server.
Basically in my web.xml I had declared the version of Servlet I am using is 2.5 as below: